Marcel iron



H. J. PAHLKA.,

MARCEL IRON.

APPLICATION FILED ocT. 13, 1921.v

Patented Apr. 11, 1922.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARCEL IRON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 11, 1922.

i Application filed. October 13, 1921'. Serial No. 507,533.

To @ZZ whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, HERMAN J. PAHLKA, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented a new and useful Marcel Iron, of which the following is a speciiication in such full and clear terms as will enable those skilled in the art to construct and use the same.

' This invention relates to a marcel iron an l its object is to provide means whereby the two members of the iron may be caused to move parallel to each other at all times whereby the hair inserted in the iron may be properly held during the necessary combing operations.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that in producing a Marcel Awave that during the time the hair is being treated by the iron it is necessary to comb the remaining body of hair, and if care is not taken to maintain the proper quantity of hair at all places along the length of thel iron, some of the hair will be loose and will easily pull out of the iron and thereby spoil the wave.

IVith the present invention all that is necessary is to have a suiiiciently uniform body of hair along the curling iron, whereupon the iron is closed and holds all of the hair tightly in place.

Another object of the invention is to provide means for holding the iron which will not receive much heat therefrom, the handles being kept cool enough for convenient use.

Other objects of the invention will appear as the description proceeds.

An embodiment of the invention'is shown in the accompanying drawings in which the same reference numeral is applied to the same portion throughout, but I am aware that there may be modifications thereof.

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the complete iron showing in dotted lines the position the heated members occupy when the handles are expanded.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the iron as shown in Figure 1, and

Fig. 3 is a side elevation on an enlarged scale of the operating mechanism for eX- panding and opening the heated portions of the iron.

Fig. 4 is a side elevation showing a form of the invention provided with means for separating the jaws of the iron wider than the jaws are separated in the first form of the invention, after they have opened a short distance whereby greater convenience in applying the'hair to the iron is attained.

The iron has two hollow handles 1 and 2. rFliese handles are pivoted together at 8 and they are also pivotally connected at 4 and 5 to the heated members of the marcel iron 6 and 7. The heated members 6 and 7 are slotted at their rear ends to receive the pins 8 and 9, as shown in Figure 3, and the rear ends of said heated members are movable in the enclosure formed by the handles 1 and 2 whereby' risk of the operator being burnt is much less since the members 6 and 7 do not have any extended direct contact with the handles.

In operation as the handles are expanded the members 6 and 7 move away from and toward each other always remaining parallel to each other, and on account of the shape of the operating levers suitable force may be readily applied to the members 6 and 7.

The screws 3, 4 and 5 are readily taken out when the irons 6 and 7 have been so burnt that they cannot be used any longer in order to put in new irons.

In the form of the invention shown in Figure 4j the handles are indicated at 12 and 13. They are connected together by means of the pivot pin 14, and carry the two curling irons 15 and 16. These irons haverearwardly projecting arms 17 and 18. These arms are provided with slots 19 'and 20, and said slots are each V-shaped to cause the irons toymove toward and from each other withoutlosing their parallelism for a short distance, and after they have moved apart a short distance, the form of the slot is such as to bring the irons further apart than would be the case if the slot continued in the same direction. This result is attained by having the slots engage the pins 22, 23 carried by the two handles 12 and 13.

That I claim is as follows, but various modifications may be made in the construction shown in the drawings and above pai'- ticularly described form, within the purview of my invention:

1..A. marcel iron comprising a pair of handles pivotally connected together, a pair of marcel irons pivotally connected to the handles, the rear end of the irons being slotted to receive other pivots carried by the handles whereby the marcel lirons `are through slots in the ends of the marcel iron caused to move away from and toward each whereby the marcel iron may be caused to 10 other while remaining parallel. rnove toward and away from each other 2. A marcel iron comprising pair of while remaining parallel. i

handles pivotally connected together, a, pair In testimony whereof I have hereunto of marcel irons pivotelly connected to the set my hand this 30th day of September,

handles and extending into the handle, piv- A. D. 1921.

ots extending through the handle and HERMAN J. PAHLKA. 

